The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Miners of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company excavating dug-outs for Headquarters, 25 feet below the surface, in the Ypres sector. Left to right: 3261 Sapper (Spr) E. J. Anderson; 3716 Spr J. Mullins; 174 Spr G. Mann; 3559 Spr J. G. Brindley; 3607 Sergeant A. Hood.
A communication trench 25 feet below the surface, excavated by the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, in the Ypres sector. Owing to the sodden nature of the earth the passage ways had to be heavily ti
Miners of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company excavating dugouts for Battle Headquarters at Hooge Crater in the Ypres Sector. Identified: unidentified (1); Sapper (Spr) H. F. Ferris (2); (3), (4) an
Men of the 3rd Australian Company excavating a chamber in the chalk in the Hulluch subway system. The chalk was dug out with miners' picks and filled into bags. These bags were trucked along the gal
Members of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company excavating at Hooge, in the Ypres Sector. Work on these dugouts constituted a record for Tunnelling Companies employed under such conditions, for the g
The Seaforth and Shoreditch mine craters at Hill 70, near Lens. These mines were blown from 100 feet below the surface by British Tunnelling Companies, during the mine fighting in March and April 1916
Group portrait of Major E. N. Mulligan, Officer Commanding DSO and miners of the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, at the mouth of a dugout in a reserve position. Identified: Sapper (Spr) Eckersley (
